Edit by nepti: "Hey, can you help me with a Steam issue on Linux where games installed on an external drive don’t run? I’m using Steam(not sandbox), and while the game installs fine and Proton is set up correctly, the game just doesn’t run when i run it auto stops
everthing is on and running, or so i think. i dont know what going on ?
by the way this is a fresh install of garuda haven’t done anything to it yet
It can be rather difficult to find the right proton, or proton commands at times, you are sure you got it right? For example, an update did not change the need for another proton? i know i ran Cyberpunk for ages on proton 8.25, then after an reinstall, it became 8.29, and now it is 9.21 if i want to be able to play it without crashing.
Also you can use protonup-qt to download proton-TKG files, have you tried them? Some games work the best on these protons.
Another, often very good way to find out what is wrong Steam loading your game, is to start steam in a terminal, and then read the output on your terminal after the game crashes to see what went wrong, or what Steam was complaining about. i got many games working doing it like this.
Cheers.
so found out from reddit ask that its bec of disk forment i was using exfat which doesnt work with proton and i switched to ext4 and now it works without problem
I have games on my exfat drive and played them without steam. I also have a bunch of games from Steam backup on my external hard drive but they are from windows. I never checked will linux steam accepts it to recover because not much time to play. Have to many games if i want install them all an try i will need few days for sure. Play only cs 2 over steam actually. Funny is also if i login with other DE its start downloading again and verify the data from the game 
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